“Jesus, take pity on me! I’m going to die of exhaustion.”--Chinese worker after 19-hour shift...At the Junxingye factory in China, the mostly-young women—including several 15 and 16-year-olds—making crucifixes are forced to work 14 to 15 ½ hours a day..., seven days a week...Workers paid just 26½ cents an hour, less than half China’s legal minimum wage of 55 cents, which is itself set at below subsistence levels...After mandatory deductions for primitive company dorms and food, the workers’ take-home wage drops to a shocking nine cents an hour...The crucifix workers have no paid sick days, no paid maternity leave, no paid holidays and no health insurance...[S]erial numbers used by the Singer Company...confirmed without a doubt that many of Singer’s crucifixes were made under deplorable sweatshop conditions at the Junxingye Factory...Management refuses to sign an employment contract with the workers—as is required under Chinese law. [Also refers to Christian Art Gifts Company, Jeweled Cross Company, Melhame , Hung Hing Printing.]